Iphone4. Vs. Galaxy
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Good points.One has to wonder if there has ever been a more powerful endorsement of the iPhone than both fuji and Woodpeckr hate it.... I mean really. Sure it's the best selling phone in the world (by a wide margin), sure it's ecosystem (apps, music, video, cloud) is the strongest and it's the easiest to use. Yes, even with half the marketshare iOS still dwarfs Android in mobile net usage (what are all those little green phones doing if they are not on the net)... but all of this pales when compared to ringing endorsement that BOTH fuji and Woodpeckr hate iPhone.
Should make you want to buy Apple stock....
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Personally, I'm really happy if there is a competitor for the iphone. Too bad its not RIM, its a shame to lose a good canadian company, but at least if there is some competition it'll keep Apple a bit more honest.
Both Google products work flawlessly on iOS and are tightly bundled, your just a damn liar.The iPhone has some ancient shitty version of google maps and its gmail integration is via pop or imap, meaning, grossly inferior.
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So my buddy let me use the iphone4 tonight for the evening.
The PHONE is fine.
But dammit...the safari browser sure displays small type. My eyes, even with glasses had to work overtime.
I know stretching the screen out makes the font larger....but dammit is that fidgety too!!!
Maybe too use to the iPad....but damn those apps are tedious.
The PHONE is fine.
But dammit...the safari browser sure displays small type. My eyes, even with glasses had to work overtime.
I know stretching the screen out makes the font larger....but dammit is that fidgety too!!!
Maybe too use to the iPad....but damn those apps are tedious.
Double tap in the area you want to read and it will zoom in and try to fit the text.So my buddy let me use the iphone4 tonight for the evening.
The PHONE is fine.
But dammit...the safari browser sure displays small type. My eyes, even with glasses had to work overtime.
I know stretching the screen out makes the font larger....but dammit is that fidgety too!!!
Maybe too use to the iPad....but damn those apps are tedious.
There's apps that try to fix this issue. Readability is one. It'll become less of a problem once more and more sites embrace responsive design (the site automatically adjusts the layout in response to the device you're using).
Try them on Android someday and see the difference. Here are some of the things you are missing:Both Google products work flawlessly on iOS and are tightly bundled, your just a damn liar.
-- indoor maps
-- 3D maps
-- Properly working street view
-- Offline maps
Since your gmail integration is based on pop/imap it lacks most of the actually useful features of gmail that make it a better mail platform than most of the alternatives. For example, unless something's changed lately, you can't see your labels on an iPhone.
The other kicker is the lack of a removable battery on the iPhone. I don't care how good you think your battery life is, if you use your phone heavily enough, the screen will drain the battery. I carry around an extra battery and if I need it, it takes me 20 seconds to swap out the battery and then I'm good to go. That feature alone implies that iPhone is just a toy, and not actually a serious product for people who make heavy use of their mobile devices. When I am out of the office, my mobile device becomes my primary communications platform, it's possible that I will have the screen on for four or five consecutive hours--on calls, looking at the agenda, IM'ing people, responding to email, viewing slide decks, whatever--honestly, add on responding on terb and reading the news. No battery will survive that. Having your battery die, and having NO RECOURSE, is a show stopper for me.
There are tonnes of cases with batteries built in to them for the iPhone... you can put them on without turning the phone off.The other kicker is the lack of a removable battery on the iPhone. I don't care how good you think your battery life is, if you use your phone heavily enough, the screen will drain the battery. I carry around an extra battery and if I need it, it takes me 20 seconds to swap out the battery and then I'm good to go. That feature alone implies that iPhone is just a toy, and not actually a serious product for people who make heavy use of their mobile devices. When I am out of the office, my mobile device becomes my primary communications platform, it's possible that I will have the screen on for four or five consecutive hours--on calls, looking at the agenda, IM'ing people, responding to email, viewing slide decks, whatever--honestly, add on responding on terb and reading the news. No battery will survive that. Having your battery die, and having NO RECOURSE, is a show stopper for me.
You're missing out. Why willfully resign yourself to less when you can have more? I don't need every app on my Android but having them makes little things even easier. I don't need a barcode scanner app, but it's helpful to compare prices on items (especially large ticket items) when I'm shopping. I don't need the level app but when I was setting up my aquirium, it was helpful because it allowed me to level it without the need for a physical tool. I don't need the flashlight app, but it's helpful when I dropped my keys in the dark. I don't need the Badoo app but it helped me meet girls in my area and get laid. I don't need the alarm clock app but when I couldn't figure out the settings on the hotel clock and didn't want to depend only on a wake-up call, I used it to wake me up. I don't need the Flixter app but it's really handy to know what movies are playing where, what time, and locations, ditto for the hipmunk app in locating hotels and flights. There are so many useful apps and more intuitive functionality of non-blackberry phones that to limit yourself makes no sense. But if you want to continue using a typewriter in the era of computers because it does what you need (print letters on paper), by all means do so.I love my Blackberry Torch....I don't need every app in the world. It does all I need.
Greater efficiency = greater productivity = win
Bulky and pointless when I can have a phone with a replaceable battery. That people are turning to such bizarre solutions just shows what a failure that decision was.Powershot said:There are tonnes of cases with batteries built in to them for the iPhone... you can put them on without turning the phone off.
This is an old bugaboo that's rapidly turning into a straw man argument. More and more Android phones now have batteries that cannot be easily replaced.The other kicker is the lack of a removable battery on the iPhone. I don't care how good you think your battery life is, if you use your phone heavily enough, the screen will drain the battery. I carry around an extra battery and if I need it, it takes me 20 seconds to swap out the battery and then I'm good to go. That feature alone implies that iPhone is just a toy, and not actually a serious product for people who make heavy use of their mobile devices. When I am out of the office, my mobile device becomes my primary communications platform, it's possible that I will have the screen on for four or five consecutive hours--on calls, looking at the agenda, IM'ing people, responding to email, viewing slide decks, whatever--honestly, add on responding on terb and reading the news. No battery will survive that. Having your battery die, and having NO RECOURSE, is a show stopper for me.
From what I've heard, the Motorola Maxx and the HTC One series are all locked up. In a quick skim over Android forums, the only real reason it seems to have a user replaceable battery is if you need to do a hard reboot.
two words: car chargerBulky and pointless when I can have a phone with a replaceable battery. That people are turning to such bizarre solutions just shows what a failure that decision was.
Correct. Also Google themselves are now stating that best in practice for Android is no SD cards on hardware. How strange.This is an old bugaboo that's rapidly turning into a straw man argument. More and more Android phones now have batteries that cannot be easily replaced.
You can hard reboot through a special key combo on most Android devices now.From what I've heard, the Motorola Maxx and the HTC One series are all locked up. In a quick skim over Android forums, the only real reason it seems to have a user replaceable battery is if you need to do a hard reboot.
Bingo.two words: car charger
That being said, I want Apple to keep making progress on better battery life.
Google's put this in practice on the Nexus 7 tablet and you know what? No complaints from the Android fanbois.Correct. Also Google themselves are now stating that best in practice for Android is no SD cards on hardware. How strange.
Afterthought - oh wait, is this a case of Android/Google following Apple?
I will never buy a toy phone like that.This is an old bugaboo that's rapidly turning into a straw man argument. More and more Android phones now have batteries that cannot be easily replaced.
If you think the only reason to replace the battery is a hard reboot, then you really are not a heavy user of your phone, and so it would seem that a toy phone would suit you well enough.From what I've heard, the Motorola Maxx and the HTC One series are all locked up. In a quick skim over Android forums, the only real reason it seems to have a user replaceable battery is if you need to do a hard reboot.
Nope, not useful to me at all. I'm not using my phone if I'm in a car, or at least, not the screen which is the real battery pig. It's going to run out of battery while I'm around an office, airport, hotel, wandering around a trade show, a customer site, whatever. I use my phone instead of a laptop because I'm MOBILE, that's why it is called a "mobile device". If I were somewhere where I could be sitting using my phone while it's plugged in then I would have a laptop and would not be using my phone as heavily.two words: car charger
This just does not solve the problem.
Nor does "better battery life" solve the problem, not with anything that is going to be realistic with modern battery technology and modern phone screens. It is not a matter of making more optimized applications or something. It's literally the energy cost of keeping those nice high definition colour screens lit up.
What DOES solve the problem extremely effectively is to buy a couple of extra batteries on eBay for next to nothing, and carry one around. I can swap batteries in under 20 seconds with the phone I have now (I have become very good at it, as I do it almost daily.)
People had the same attitude towards laptops. And now we've went from barely an hour to around 4-5 hours easily.Nor does "better battery life" solve the problem, not with anything that is going to be realistic with modern battery technology and modern phone screens. It is not a matter of making more optimized applications or something. It's literally the energy cost of keeping those nice high definition colour screens lit up.
I think you missed the point that 4-5 hours is like, half as much as I need some days. Laptops are only useful in situations where you can plug them in periodically, unless, as with my phone, you carry around a spare battery.People had the same attitude towards laptops. And now we've went from barely an hour to around 4-5 hours easily.
I do in fact carry a spare laptop battery if I travel to a customer site, as I don't know if I'll be able to plug in.
